Here we go again – Iron star man on the move

Sadly we are at it again – the Rice to Chelsea saga drags on courtesy as usual of The Sun.

In the absence of any transfer stories, given we haven’t even finished the Premier League season, and that the window won’t open for around another month, it would normally be a surprise that a story can be repeated for the umpteenth time.

The latest tale  can be found at https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/11972260/chelsea-rice-transfer-lampard-45m-centre-back/ and we’ll leave you to make what you will of it.

But as far as we can see the only difference to what has gone before is that the Sun  has decided to knock around £30 million off the expected asking price of around £75 million.

One assumes this has been done to give credibility to the story following the financial damage caused to prices in the transfer market by Covid 19.

However, an England international who can perform as admirably in defensive midfield or central defence won’t be going anywhere for that money.

The club have made it clear his price will only rise over the next couple of years although nobody would be unrealistic enough to believe that if we are relegated he may not be on his way somewhere.

However, if that should be the case it certainly won’t be at the price quoted in this piece of recycled ‘news.’